Geographical linguistics (or dialectology) has
a long tradition: languages and dialects have
been put on maps, and those maps have been
studied since the mid of the 19th Century.
However, recent decades have seen a rapid
increase in insights into linguistic structure
as well as in geographic technology, and those
two have not always been completely matched to
each other, so that one might feel that current
linguistic maps leave things to be desired for
on both ends.

Many questions arise. For instance, how can
regions be identified from mapped data? What
are good methods to map linguistic properties?
Is it possible to map grammatical (sub)systems
instead of individual grammatical features and
if so how? How can geographic information
systems (GIS) best be applied to linguistic
data? What can linguistic mapping learn from
mapping techniques used in other fields of
science? How can we deal with data noise and
data sparsity?

This workshop aims to bring together
researchers with a background in linguistics
and researchers with a background in
mapping.

Invited Speakers:

Hans Goebl, University of Salzburg
John Nerbonne, University of Groningen
Bettina Speckmann, Eindhoven University of
Technology

Call for Abstracts:

We invite the submission of abstracts on the
relation between linguistics and geographical
maps, including but not limited to:

- Development and storage of linguistic data
with geographic features
- The use of geographical data in linguistic
argumentation
- Visualization of linguistic data on
geographic maps
- Identifying regions in mapped data from any
field of science

Submission Details:

Submit an abstract of maximally 400 words by
e-mail to erik.tjong.kim.sangmeertens.knaw.nl on or before
Sunday June 1, 2014. Notifications of
acceptance will be sent out by June 16,
2014.

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